DAVID SHIELDS’S other books are Remote, A Handbook for Drowning, and Heroes. His stories and essays have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Harper’s, Vogue, Details, the Village Voice, and Utne Reader. He has received two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, two PEN Syndicated Fiction awards, an Ingram-Merrill Foundation award, a PEN/Revson Foundation fellowship, and a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship. A graduate of Brown University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, he now lives in Seattle, where he is a professor of English at the University of Washington.